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Countdown To Showdown: Domino’s Supreme Error And Why Businesses Should Do The Opposite

Forrester IT

When you hear “Domino’s” and “supreme” in the same sentence, you could be forgiven for thinking we’re talking about the “Supreme” on its menu — a pizza loaded with pepperoni, bacon, beef, sausage, mushroom, pineapple, and onion. But no, I’m talking about a bad business decision — which any company with a website or app […].

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Agile Planning: Leverage Customer Feedback and Usage Data

Social, Agile and Transformation

The happy path of agile planning is around breaking down features and releasing them. The required path is to itemize technical debt, business and technical operational needs, and compliance requirements into the plan and ensuring some of this work gets prioritized. But many organizations leave our one crucial element of prioritization. require(["mojo/signup-forms/Loader"], function(L) {.

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Have You Been Asked To Help Use Dark Patterns?

Forrester IT

“I tried to stop it from happening, but they just ignored me.” That’s what one person told me recently — and many others responded similarly — when I blogged about my upcoming keynote at CX SF and invited people to share their stories with me in confidence about how they respond when asked to help […].

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How Autonomous Systems are Impacting IT

Information Week

Automation isn't new to IT, but autonomous systems are, which is why IT leaders and professionals have to think about the value they're delivering, again.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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It’s Time To Reinvent Mapping For The Physical Future

Forrester IT

We have 50 years of experience with digital maps, so you might think the mapping industry would have it all figured out. After all, after 50 years of AI, the software industry figured out how to put the algorithms and data lakes on a specialized PaaS that any developer could tap. But in mapping, the […].

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How to connect the Buttercup password manager to a cloud account

Tech Republic Security

There's a new password manager in town. Find out how to connect Buttercup to a cloud account for easy password management.

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How to connect the Buttercup password manager to a cloud account

Tech Republic Security

There's a new password manager in town. Find out how to connect Buttercup to a cloud account for easy password management.

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The Holiday Season, 2019: AD&D Leaders Should Test Customer-Facing Applications Ahead Of The Holiday Season To Guarantee Performance During Peak Trading

Forrester IT

I don’t know about you but the Holiday Season still always finds me personally unprepared with a huge list of gifts still to find well into December. There’s less excuse for retail AD&D professionals to be so forgetful. This blog offers retail AD&D leaders simple, actionable advice to ensure successful holiday trading. Look to continuous […].

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Companies still unprepared for GDPR rule changes and potential EU data breaches

Tech Republic Security

A new survey finds many companies are still in the dark about GDPR compliance.

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The Holiday Season, 2019: AD&D Leaders Should Deploy Sophisticated Analytics In Their Trading Support Applications To Optimize Holiday Planning

Forrester IT

Holiday season tests to the max the effectiveness of each retailer’s demand, price, and assortment planning, and its allocation of inventory to channels and regions. To ensure success: Use data to drive recommendations. Follow the example of international brands like Nike or iconic national eCommerce retailers like Germany’s Heine. Work with vendors like Dynamic Action to make specific, data-driven recommendations […].

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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The Benefits of DevOps by Role

Flexagon

Businesses face rapid changes and high demands every day. Modern consumers have ever-changing demands and higher expectations for businesses than their predecessors. Increasing competition means companies have to act quickly and intelligently to hold their share of the market. Organizations are constantly battling with their rivals, striving to provide the best product for their customers.

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Fuel Your OODA Loop With Insights Into Artificial Intelligence

CTOvision

We have been producing so much content on Artificial Intelligence at OODA Loop I wanted to provide a short overview of reports for your reference. Most of these reports are produced for our members, with a few being open to all readers. If you are not a member yet I would very much appreciate you […].

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Follow IT Leadership Principles to Run Strategic IT

Future of CIO

Digital businesses are becoming complex and uncertain, to survive and thrive, IT plays a linchpin to integrate all important business elements into a set of business competencies. To transform IT from a cost center to a strategic business partner, modern CIOs should follow a set of well-defined principles to lead through influence, not through brute forces.

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Why big data alone won’t speed up your decisions

CTOvision

Read why Eric D. Brown says that big data alone can’t speed up your business decisions on The Enterprisers Project : Last week, I had coffee with a colleague who’s been working with a mid-sized organization on a big data initiative. The initiative has involved numerous projects over the last seven years, all focused on […].

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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The Best “Inflection Point” Quotes of “Digital Master” Sep. 2019

Future of CIO

" Digital Master ” is a series of guidebooks (28 + books) to perceive the multi-faceted impact digital is making to the businesses and society, help forward-thinking organizations navigate through the journey in a systematic way, and avoid “rogue digital.” It perceives the emergent trends of digital leadership, provides advice on how to run a digital organization to unleash its full potential and improve agility, maturity, and provide insight about Change Management.

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3 Blockchain Improvements That Will Lead to Its Mainstream Adoption

CTOvision

Read A J. Agrawal list three blockchain improvements that could lead to more adoption of the technology on Entrepreneur : Amazon, Walmart, Facebook, IBM: These are among the household names using blockchain to change business. In fact, according to a recent Deloitte survey, more than half of companies say blockchain is a critical priority for […].

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Webinar Review: An Introduction to DevOps

Flexagon

On September 12th, 2019, Dan Goerdt presented a webinar on the basics of DevOps. If you missed the live event, it is now available on-demand! You can watch it here. Here is a very brief overview… Businesses face immense challenges today with software delivery. Issues involve cost, speed, and quality, as many deployments can be. The post Webinar Review: An Introduction to DevOps appeared first on Flexagon.

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Wi-Fi 6 certification is here to make next-gen speeds a widespread reality

CTOvision

Promising a “new Wi-Fi era,” the nonprofit Wi-Fi Alliance industry group launched the Wi-Fi Certified 6 program Monday. The program aims to hold devices that use next-gen 802.11ax Wi-Fi radios to an established set of standards. Manufacturers that participate get to put a little certification badge on their packaging. That badge is important because it lets […].

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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The U1 chip in the iPhone 11 is the beginning of an Ultra Wideband revolution

CTOvision

Apple likes talking about the awesome chips it designs for its iPhones, but it hates even hinting at products it hasn’t yet announced. The new U1 chip—introduced with the iPhone 11 but never mentioned on stage at Tuesday’s iPhone event—strikes at the heart of this conflict. Embedded in the U1 is new technology that may […].

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How Wi-Fi Almost Didn’t Happen

CTOvision

Read Jeff Abramowitz take a look at the history of Wi-Fi which was launched 20 years ago and nearly lost out to the rival HomeRF, which was developed and promoted by a group including Compaq, HP, IBM, Intel, and Microsoft on Wired : We all love Wi-Fi, except when we can’t connect. We take for […].

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